[P]eople “need” multiple partners like they need four houses or six automobiles. These are wants, not needs. And when seemingly reasonable people argue that in previous eras people didn’t live so long, such that the death of a spouse functioned as a way for humans to fulfill their “need for sexual variety” it pays to be skeptical. (Since when did golden anniversaries become something to pity rather than something to celebrate?). No, the new turn away from monogamy was made possible not because we figured out that we are still animals but because we figured out how to effectively prevent pregnancies or end them prematurely, freeing us up to pursue the art of sexuality—the body as a tool of consumption rather than production.
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So the bodies of women are to be viewed as baby making machines?
Anonymous,
I allowed this comment to pass only to demonstrate to other readers how liberals like you are unable to read and comprehend, and so you have to make asinine comments.
There is absolutely no suggestion that women are to be viewed as baby making machines. You just conjured that up as an attack on morality.
You apparently believe that women are just their to satisfy sexual urges, so that you can just rut your way through life.
Go troll some other blog.
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